Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer

📋 Description

• Estate Discovery: Build a complete baseline of a multi-cluster production EKS estate, covering
• Blast Radius & Architecture: Analyze failure domains, isolation boundaries, and dependency
• Upgrade Automation: Design and implement an upgrade approach (in-place vs. blue/green clusters
• Compute & Capacity Strategy: Lead instance sizing and workload-fit analysis across instance
• Graviton Migration: Plan and drive a phased ARM64 migration across Java, Go, PHP, and Python
• Karpenter Engineering: Configure NodePools, weights, and node overlays so scheduling favors

🎯 Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering, including 4+ years
• EKS at Scale: Deep production experience with Amazon EKS at large scale (multiple production
• Cluster Upgrades: Hands-on ownership of EKS version upgrades across multiple production clusters
• Karpenter: Advanced production experience with Karpenter (v1+), including NodePools, disruption and
• Compute Fundamentals: Strong understanding of EC2 instance families and generations, CPU
• ARM64 / Graviton: Experience migrating production workloads to Graviton or other ARM64 platforms

🎁 Benefits

• 100% Remote Workplace
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Equity
• 401K with company contribution and sponsored healthcare
• Professional Growth: Access to training and certification programs